Wellington protest: What the Parliament occupation evacuation looked like from above| Stuff.co.nz

Описание: Day 23: Aerial view of evacuation of Parliament and Molesworth Street, Wellington. Read more: https://bit.ly/3sxLggh | Subscribe: https://bit.ly/2JPg8oB

Two hours after the children’s playground at Parliament was set on fire, a young boy, aged around five, stood at a Wellington intersection. He wore a pair of Batman pyjamas, sometimes kicking his slippered feet against a lamppost and sometimes looking across the road, where protesters shouted profanities at a line-up of helmeted police holding riot shields.

“What are you going to tell your kids tonight?” someone yells at the cops, who stand impassively against the abuse they’ve now been subject to for days. “Who are you protecting?” another shouts. The smoke from the fires lit by protesters earlier when police launched a major operation to remove them from Parliament’s lawn, where some had been camping for more than three weeks, has mostly dissipated. An acrid burnt smell lingers in the cold air, mixed with weed.

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